Rest in Peace, Frank Soos
“From this distance, we take the measure of the stars’ sharp edges, feel the cuts of their cold light,” Frank wrote in a tiny essay from Double Moon, a collaboration with Margo. “But up among them, what would we find? Loud bags of gas, light not so much around us but within us. And nothing. Lots more nothing than we are able to account for. Does this scare you? Not me. It is from this nothing that the stuff of our lives must be made.”
One year later, ten years past
It all begins with an idea.
Leavetakings: A debut book of lyric essays from Corinna Cook
Corinna Cook was born and raised in Juneau, “a rainy and proud and complicated town that wears no asphalt leash,” as she puts it in her debut book of lyric essays, Leavetakings. Just published by University of Alaska Press in the Alaska Literary Series, it’s a gorgeous, short collection of nine finely-tuned essays that care deeply about place, the more-than-human world, and the delicacies of being an individual among others “roused into liveliness and pierced by loss.”
The Warbler's Answer
Have Poems, Will Travel ~ 1600 Mile Loop
Earthquake and Quake Poems on Demand
Carrie Ayaġaduk Ojanen Launch at Hugo House
Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference notes, 2016
Susanna Mishler launch
Interview: Tom Kizzia
“This was a book that started with a bulldozer in a national park. In that sense, the original newspaper stories naturally introduced some of those big themes you refer to, themes of wilderness and modern attitudes toward nature and the mythology of American pioneering. It was only after I interviewed Papa Pilgrim over the phone, and found his self-presentation to be weirdly fascinating, that I decided I should try to go meet him.”